Arizona Sen. John McCain has a brain tumor, the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix announced on Wednesday.

The announcement follows a procedure that McCain, 80, had on July 14 in which he had a blood clot removed from above his left eye.

“Further consultations with Senator McCain’s Mayo Clinic care team will indicate when he will return to the United States Senate,” his office said in a statement.

“Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot,” the hospital said.

“Scanning done since the procedure (a minimally invasive craniotomy with an eyebrow incision) shows that the tissue of concern was completely resected by imaging criteria.

“The Senator and his family are reviewing further treatment options with his Mayo Clinic care team. Treatment options may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation.”

Fox News’ Meghan McCain, released a statement regarding her father minutes after the news broke.

“The news of my father’s illness has affected every one of us in the McCain family,” wrote Meghan. “If we could ask anything of anyone now, it would be the prayers of those of you who understand this all too well. We would be so grateful for them.”

Meghan added that it is her father “who is most confident and calm” in the family upon learning such devastating news.

“He is the toughest person I know,” she wrote. “The cruelest enemy could not break him. The aggressions of political life could not bend him. So he is meeting this challenge as he has every other. Cancer may afflict him in many ways: But it will not make him surrender. Nothing ever has.”

Dr. Milton Wolf is a diagnostic radiologist in Kansas, and after learning the details of McCain’s unexpected surgery he thinks the situation is much, much worse than McCain and his staff are letting on. In fact, he said there appears to be a deliberate attempt to cover up the Senator’s health condition by both the media and those closest to McCain.

“He had brain surgery for a 5 cm intracranial hematoma,” Wolf continued. “That’s a big deal. Can be life ending.”

He then said that people are playing word games when it comes to describing McCain’s condition.

“Media is buying his statement that it was from a routine annual physical —brain surgery?!— and they’re saying it was “above the left eye” rather than saying brain,” he said. “Clintonesque.”

Wolf also took to Twitter to publicly question the official story, noting the size of the “hematoma is huge.”

On Monday, it was reported that other doctors observing McCain’s condition said it could take weeks for him to heal, which falls along the same lines as what Wolf was saying. The Daily Mailreported that medical examiners speaking to the New York Times said a “blood clot in this area would be a very concerning issues,” and that “the recovery time for a craniotomy is usually a few weeks,” contradicting McCain’s statement saying he would be out for a week, at most.

Granted, McCain is likely getting the best treatment in the country because he’s rich and in Congress, but recovery times are recovery times regardless, and someone his age isn’t going to recover with any sort of speed. So odds are, he’s going to be out for quite some time, which could really slow down President Trump’s agenda.

While we often criticize McCain over his policies concerning the Trump administration, politics shouldn’t ever come before the health of another human being. We wish him a full and speedy recovery and pray there’s no further complications.